Product warning notice

[Sticks]

This is uploaded to my facebook account

http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2088/25/16/642840893/n642840893_1899486_8676.jpg

Looking at the warning notice my thoughts were "Duh!" :wall:

[sarongsong]

Illegible on my computer screen. :(

[Moose]

Sarongsong, it reads (capitalization left intact):

american honey roasted peanuts
(coated peanuts)
ALLERGY INFORMATION: This product contains nuts.

[nauthiz]

Not necessarily a duh.

Peanuts aren't really nuts, and people who are allergic to one aren't necessarily allergic to the other. If that product is manufactured on equipment that is also used to process tree nuts or something like that, then mentioning that separately with an allergy warning would be a good idea.

[Sam5]

Looking at the warning notice my thoughts were "Duh!" :wall:

It has to do with lawsuits and legal language. In states that require “nut” warnings on food product labels, if a nut warning is present, this helps the manufacturing company avoid lawsuits due to some people getting sick from allergic reactions after eating the nuts in the product. The key legal term is “warning label”, which is not the same as “nut” being used in the name of the product.

[captain swoop]

I used to work for Dell as a service engineer. One of the sites I used to cover was the KP Foods plant in Billingham. They make snackfoods like Wheat Crunchies and such. It's a certified 'Nut Free' site. Visitors have to sign an undertaking that they aren't carrying anything that contains nuts or even foodstuff that has a 'may contain nuts' label. Staff that bring their own lunches have them checked as they enter to ensure there are no nuts. Sesame seeds count as nuts so if you have a breadroll with sesame seeds on it then it's not allowed. If any products containing nuts were knowingly allowed on the site than all their labels would have to say 'May contain nuts' even on products that don't have nuts as an ingredient.

[sarongsong]

...american honey roasted peanuts
(coated peanuts)
ALLERGY INFORMATION: This product contains nuts.Thanks---I could read as far as "ALLERGY"---now wondering if I need a new monitor. :doh:

[Ara Pacis]

Not necessarily a duh.

Peanuts aren't really nuts, and people who are allergic to one aren't necessarily allergic to the other. If that product is manufactured on equipment that is also used to process tree nuts or something like that, then mentioning that separately with an allergy warning would be a good idea.

What he said. Peanuts are legumes, not nuts, despite the common name. Just be happy we don't use the old name of "goober peas". Imagine seeing that on a label.

[NEOWatcher]

This one's not actually associated with legal butt-saving, but sounds just as un-necessary.

'Food police' want warning on giant ballpark burger (http://www.wkyc.com/news/watercooler/watercooler_article.aspx?storyid=110491&catid=91)

The staff dietitian at a doctors group says a minor-league baseball team in Grand Rapids, Mich., should warn fans that a 4,800-calorie burger it plans to sell is bad for them.
Anybody who doesn't understand an 8 inch, 5 patty, 4 pound burger with 5 cheeses, a cup of chili and corn chips on it is not healthy probably deserves what they get.

Besides; don't they realize that a warning like that will actually promote it even more?

[pumpkinpie]

This one's not actually associated with legal butt-saving, but sounds just as un-necessary.

'Food police' want warning on giant ballpark burger (http://www.wkyc.com/news/watercooler/watercooler_article.aspx?storyid=110491&catid=91)


Anybody who doesn't understand an 8 inch, 5 patty, 4 pound burger with 5 cheeses, a cup of chili and corn chips on it is not healthy probably deserves what they get.

Besides; don't they realize that a warning like that will actually promote it even more?

It's a $20 burger. If you buy and eat $20 worth of pizza, or fries, or pop, or ice cream, even beer--take your pick--and eat/drink it all, it's not much better or worse than that burger. Let's put labels on everything! Oh wait--that's what the nutritional information, plus the public's ability to read and use common sense--is for.

[HenrikOlsen]

So have a mandatory nutritional information label in the menu. (Which I'm assuming it doesn't have)

[pumpkinpie]

So have a mandatory nutritional information label in the menu. (Which I'm assuming it doesn't have)

They might, or at least have it posted/available in the vicinty. I just checked their website
http://www.whitecaps-baseball.com/FANS/food.html
but couldn't tell one way or the other. Places like McDonald's have all of their nutritional values posted in their stores. I assume it's a requirement, but I don't know if ballparks have that same requirement.

I'm sure the burger itself doesn't have a warning.

And I'm sure the bags of peanuts they sell don't say "may contain nuts." ;)

[Swift]

Warning!
This thread contains a discussion of nuts. If you are so allergic to nuts that even reading about them makes you sick, you should not read this thread.

[Moose]

Warning: This BAUT contains goobers, nitpecans, cachets, and academia nuts.

[NEOWatcher]

Warning!
A lot of good that does now.

It should be on the title as [spoilers] or just be recalled altogether.

Next comment...Pistachios

[Fazor]

Next comment...Pistachios

In the spirit of those who are avoiding the bad economy "by refusing to participate in the recession!" . . .

I refuse to be part of the salmonella recalls, by refusing to be vulnerable to such diseases. I haven't gotten sick or died from salmonella yet, so obviously my tactic works.


:)

[hhEb09'1]

A lot of good that does now.All BAUT threads contain nuts. So, we thought we wouldn't need warnings. Like the OP.

[NEOWatcher]

All BAUT threads contain nuts. So, we thought we wouldn't need warnings. Like the OP.
And I thought we were just a bunch of goobers.

Cashew...Gesundheit.

[mike alexander]

Sam and Ella who?

[Sticks]

The nuts actually taste quite nice, I am onto my umpteenth tub of them.

With honey roast peanuts, to they dip them in honey and then roast them

[tdvance]

This one's not actually associated with legal butt-saving, but sounds just as un-necessary.

'Food police' want warning on giant ballpark burger (http://www.wkyc.com/news/watercooler/watercooler_article.aspx?storyid=110491&catid=91)


Anybody who doesn't understand an 8 inch, 5 patty, 4 pound burger with 5 cheeses, a cup of chili and corn chips on it is not healthy probably deserves what they get.

Besides; don't they realize that a warning like that will actually promote it even more?

Yeah, while we're at it, we must put labels on chainsaws that say "eat this device at your own risk"

[Fazor]

Yeah, while we're at it, we must put labels on chainsaws that say "eat this device at your own risk"

No way. Make them learn the hard way like the rest of us did.

[Jeff Root]

WARNING
Reading warning labels has been shown to induce nausea, chills, vomiting,
and diarrhea in potential consumers of this product. In rare cases it may
cause fainting, coma, death, or unstoppable hiccups. Not recommended
for babies under one year old.

.

[novaderrik]

if you think that's funny, grab a bottle of water and look at the nutritional information.
it's just a bunch of zeroes.

[pumpkinpie]

Hmmm....why bother drinking water then, if it has no nutritional value?

[korjik]

Hmmm....why bother drinking water then, if it has no nutritional value?

Are you trying to say that we have all been duped by the hydro-industrial complex?

[TrAI]

if you think that's funny, grab a bottle of water and look at the nutritional information.
it's just a bunch of zeroes.

Hmmm... I think I have a bottle here somewhere.

Ah...
innhold per liter:
Natrium 1,81 mg
Klorid 1,58 mg
Kalsium 16,3 mg
Kalium 0,45 mg
Magnesium 0,49 mg
Fluorid 0,14 mg
Sulfat 4,11 mg

So, according to the label it contains(if I don't mess up the translation) sodium, chloride, calcium, potassium, magnesium, fluride, sulphate... :think:

Actually, it is rather common for water to be labeled according to the minerals it contains, not the (rather useless) nutritional information thing that many other food stuffs are labeled with, at least over here.

[NEOWatcher]

...at least over here.
That's the key. Most people here are familiar with the U.S. food labeling requirements.

Here's a nutritional web site with the entire breakdown of a one ounce serving of water (http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/beverages/9238/2).
The box in the upper left marked "Nutrition Facts" is the label seen on virtually all food products in the U.S.

They gave it 2 stars for health. and...
The good: This food is very low in Saturated Fat, Cholesterol and Sodium.

[mike alexander]

Ah. Homeopathic food.

[Tobin Dax]

Yeah, while we're at it, we must put labels on chainsaws that say "eat this device at your own risk"
What chainsaws really need is a warning that the chain is made of metal, and that prolonged exposure to skin is not recommended for those with allergies to nickel, silver, etc. :whistle:

[Ara Pacis]

I think the pistachio scare is just a false-flag operation aimed at undermining the Iranian export market or propping it up, I'm not sure which. :-P

[danscope]

I don't think so,tim. They are a little bit serious about food recalls and
death. A little bit.
Dan

[Atraveller]

Seen on a steel claw hammer at Target

"Not to be taken internally"

[farmerjumperdon]

I never noticed until I filled my tank a couple days ago that there is actually a warning on the pump to remove the nozzle from the filler when done.

Makes me wonder if the station could actually be found liable for damage if the label wasn't there and someone damaged their car driving off with the nozzle still in.

[NEOWatcher]

Makes me wonder if the station could actually be found liable for damage if the label wasn't there and someone damaged their car driving off with the nozzle still in.
I'm not sure about the liability of it, but it has happened enough times that the lawyers needed to cook up the CYA.

[mugaliens]

Anybody who doesn't understand an 8 inch, 5 patty, 4 pound burger with 5 cheeses, a cup of chili and corn chips on it is not healthy probably deserves what they get.

Apparently not. Sort of like hot McDonald's coffee, or sharp knives... "Warning - may cause lacerations if handled carelessly."

Besides; don't they realize that a warning like that will actually promote it even more?

Well, look who he's a dietician for... :rolleyes: Not exactly disinterested third party!

[Trebuchet]

I bought a little 3-foot stepladder -- two steps and the top platform. It came with OSHA required stickers on the second step and top saying "Don't stand here", thus relegating it to being a 1-foot stepladder. This was 25 years ago, I don't if they're still quite so strict. I couldn't help imagining the potential 2-foot stepladder, with stickers advising you not to stand anywhere.

[danscope]

"Directae absurdum " . I don't know if my latin holds up, but...
you get the idea. :)
Dan

[Scamp]

Let's form a class action lawsuit.

All these needless warning labels have created a danger of their own because the net effect is that no one reads the warnings anymore.

Who should we pick to go after first?

[Jeff Root]

The one that is bugging me at the moment is regulations regarding fire
doors. New doors had to be installed on all the doors to the apartments
in my building a few years ago. They are clearly heavier than the old
doors, but almost all of them were cut so high up at the bottom that
they have a big gap. Fire would easily travel along the carpeting under
the door faster than burning through the old doors.

More annoying is that the doors at the ends of the common hallways
have to be kept closed. There used to be doorstops holding them open.
Now there is no way to get air to circulate through the building unless
I and a neighbor across the hall both open our windows and doors at
the same time.

If the fire alarm sounds, I will be going through those doors. All of them.
To see if there is an actual fire somewhere. If there were an actual fire
somewhere, I and lots of other people would be going through the doors.
And if there were an actual fire somewhere, the people would be on the
same side of the fire doors as the fire.

So having them closed all the time does no good whatever in terms of
fire safety, makes the building stink, and are a @$!&#ing nuisance.

I expect that for every person whose life is saved by a fire door, there
are several people killed by them, and thousands of people injured.

-- Jeff, in Minneapolis

[tdvance]

"More annoying is that the doors at the ends of the common hallways
have to be kept closed. There used to be doorstops holding them open.
Now there is no way to get air to circulate through the building unless
I and a neighbor across the hall both open our windows and doors at
the same time."

There is actually a good solution to that--in my High School, the fire doors were held open by electromagnets, which automatically shut off when the fire alarm went off.

[sarongsong]

Let's form a class action lawsuit...the net effect is that no one reads the warnings anymore......and some are even giving warnings/notices after the transaction!Thank you for sending your comments.
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[closetgeek]

I never noticed until I filled my tank a couple days ago that there is actually a warning on the pump to remove the nozzle from the filler when done.

Makes me wonder if the station could actually be found liable for damage if the label wasn't there and someone damaged their car driving off with the nozzle still in.

No they are probably just sick of people forgetting and driving off with it still in the tank. I've done it once, it's a long story, but I was in the middle of a tantrum, so I wasn't all there.

[tdvance]

Where I live, all the local gas stations have breakaway nozzles, that break off rather than damage the car (well, there could be some damage). It might be the law, I don't know. But I imagine it's enough of a problem for gas stations that they put up the warning label nobody reads.

The latest one locally is "it is against state law to walk away from the nozzle while it is pumping, including getting into the vehicle". That last is because, according to Jamie and Adam, doing so results in a difference in charge between yourself and the gas pump, so you get a static electric spark, and sometimes, a gas fire. Still, I've watched, and A LOT of people violate that one, put nozzle in the tank and get in the car and wait. I never understood the reason for that....

[Ara Pacis]

I never understood the reason for that....

I wouldn't understand the reason for that one in MD either. Somewhere up north where the winter wind whips up -40 wind chills, and I would understand that one.

[darkhunter]

Where I live, all the local gas stations have breakaway nozzles, that break off rather than damage the car (well, there could be some damage). It might be the law, I don't know. But I imagine it's enough of a problem for gas stations that they put up the warning label nobody reads.

The latest one locally is "it is against state law to walk away from the nozzle while it is pumping, including getting into the vehicle". That last is because, according to Jamie and Adam, doing so results in a difference in charge between yourself and the gas pump, so you get a static electric spark, and sometimes, a gas fire. Still, I've watched, and A LOT of people violate that one, put nozzle in the tank and get in the car and wait. I never understood the reason for that....

Where I work we are always refilling equipment. By the safety standards of my workplace, the fuel nozzles can't have the lactch to keep them open, so I've gotten into the habit of always holding on to the handle anyways.

The fuel filler holes are usually big enought that the nozzle won't stay in them anyways--I've seen an individual jam a brick into the handle to hold it open and the handle fell out and made a big mess. . . .

[Trebuchet]

Where I live, all the local gas stations have breakaway nozzles, that break off rather than damage the car (well, there could be some damage). It might be the law, I don't know. But I imagine it's enough of a problem for gas stations that they put up the warning label nobody reads.

The breakaways aren't to protect the car but to prevent spillage and fire when someone drives off with the nozzle in the tank. The breakaway coupling has a shutoff valve in it that closes when it breaks. I suspect it is a legal requirement.

[danscope]

Yes, severe metallic poisoning....:)

[sarongsong]

Found onsite while tracking a package:NOTICE: UPS authorizes you to use UPS tracking systems solely to track shipments tendered by or for you to UPS for delivery and for no other purpose. Any other use of UPS tracking systems and information is strictly prohibited."Any other use"...like what, for instance :confused:

[Moose]

Tracking someone else's packages.

[sarongsong]

OK, but how might someone else get my tracking #?

[roverich]

Where I live, all the local gas stations have breakaway nozzles, that break off rather than damage the car (well, there could be some damage). It might be the law, I don't know. But I imagine it's enough of a problem for gas stations that they put up the warning label nobody reads.

The latest one locally is "it is against state law to walk away from the nozzle while it is pumping, including getting into the vehicle". That last is because, according to Jamie and Adam, doing so results in a difference in charge between yourself and the gas pump, so you get a static electric spark, and sometimes, a gas fire. Still, I've watched, and A LOT of people violate that one, put nozzle in the tank and get in the car and wait. I never understood the reason for that....

One reason people got in their cars in the No.Va. area anyway is because of that sniper idiot that was running around shooting people at gas stations a few years ago ... That and they're just plain lazy ...I have seen people wedge the gas cap into the handle of the nozzel to hold it open also ..But on some pump handles around this area anyway , it will cut off if gas reaches the nozzel even if you have a gas cap or brick wedged in the handle ...

[Ara Pacis]

OK, but how might someone else get my tracking #?

Without your knowledge.

[tdvance]

One reason people got in their cars in the No.Va. area anyway is because of that sniper idiot that was running around shooting people at gas stations a few years ago ... That and they're just plain lazy ...I have seen people wedge the gas cap into the handle of the nozzel to hold it open also ..But on some pump handles around this area anyway , it will cut off if gas reaches the nozzel even if you have a gas cap or brick wedged in the handle ...

Ah yes, the sniper. Of course, that was a problem for only a few weeks. It doesn't explain later. (I live in one of the sniper's towns--Bowie, where the middle school kid was shot in the head, one of the few victims who survived).

[tdvance]

There are nefarious uses for the tracking number I'm sure--we recently, in a nearby town (and for all I know, the tracking number was used, though I'm not sure it was prohibited under the wording above) had a case of the mayor receiving a shipment of drugs. He was arrested, but exonerated--turns out, drug dealers had a new way to deliver the stash--send it to some unsuspecting person and the receiver arranges to "steal" it from the doorstep before the homeowner retrieves it. It kind of failed when the mayor's wife accepted the package, and the police, who were following the tracking number too, then entered the house with their no-knock warrant.

[SeanF]

One reason people got in their cars in the No.Va. area anyway is because of that sniper idiot that was running around shooting people at gas stations a few years ago ... That and they're just plain lazy ...I have seen people wedge the gas cap into the handle of the nozzel to hold it open also ..But on some pump handles around this area anyway , it will cut off if gas reaches the nozzel even if you have a gas cap or brick wedged in the handle ...
Believe me, when the wind chill is sixty below, you'll sit in your car while the gas is pumping, too. And if static starts a fire, you'll be grateful for the warmth! :lol: